Thanks for writing this. The second half was really lovely; as for the first half, I also found Three Body to be frustrating to read and also felt like its scientist characters don’t embody what I think of as the actual virtues of scientists. I found the way they updated their beliefs to be very bizarre; lots of jumping to conclusions, not questioning assumptions, and taking pithy aphorisms really seriously.
Thanks for writing this. The second half was really lovely; as for the first half, I also found Three Body to be frustrating to read and also felt like its scientist characters don’t embody what I think of as the actual virtues of scientists. I found the way they updated their beliefs to be very bizarre; lots of jumping to conclusions, not questioning assumptions, and taking pithy aphorisms really seriously.
Also, wow, I just finished Annihilation and it’s so good, and so much better than Three Body.